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  1. Vehicle Wrap Designing

    Aside from the basic stuff like taking good, straight-on photos of the vehicle and getting proper measurements the actual design work requires some strategy. The actual wrap installation is a not-perfect thing. So avoid doing things like making border striping effects that follow around wheel...
  2. Red to Black fade gradient

    Are you using a rich black for the black color in the gradient? A red color transitioning to a plain 100% K black color is more likely to have issues with banding and odd looking colors in between than a rich black color that uses all four CMYK inks. Depending on the red color values and how...
  3. FlexiCOMPLETE is an utter piece of garbage

    We have 3 old licenses of Flexi at my workplace; they're mainly used for things like vinyl cutting or doing minor things to artwork to bring into EnRoute. All of the actual design work is getting done in CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. We bypassed the option to add large format RIP...
  4. Why does Flexi do this to some fonts?

    Inter has a variable version. The companion static font files are derived from the variable version. I missed that discussion. I've used Illustrator for more than 30 years and I definitely see it as a potentially big problem for Illustrator to not show a wireframe of live text objects. Anyone...
  5. Why does Flexi do this to some fonts?

    That's odd. I see overlapping letters in static fonts more often from fonts downloaded from Google Fonts. I've even encountered a couple of type families that had only static fonts (no variable versions included) yet still had glyphs with overlapping parts. I think this is a side-effect of...
  6. Why does Flexi do this to some fonts?

    I just checked the version of DM Sans hosted at Adobe Fonts. They're all static font files. Yet the letters do indeed have overlaps. Another funny thing: the fonts will work in Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Designer, but they refuse to load in CorelDRAW. Something is definitely wrong with the...
  7. Why does Flexi do this to some fonts?

    I can't even get DM Sans to load in my copy of CorelDRAW. None of the static or variable fonts will show up in the font menu. CorelDRAW generally doesn't like fonts from the Google Fonts web site. Some of them get rendered as Arial for some odd reason.
  8. Why does Flexi do this to some fonts?

    Adobe Illustrator won't give live type objects wireframe previews. In Outline View the type objects are still black. You have to convert a copy of the text object to outlines. I checked one of the static styles of DM Sans. Sure enough, it has overlaps present. In Adobe Illustrator you can use...
  9. Why does Flexi do this to some fonts?

    Which typeface is it?
  10. Why does Flexi do this to some fonts?

    Flexi must not respect any overlapping shapes in fonts. It's a non-zero winding thing, something I first learned how to deal with using Adobe Illustrator. That involved side effects of converting live line strokes to editable outlines. There would always be overlaps in the corners. The same...
  11. Font ID Request - Leafy Font

    I'm stumped at the identity of the type used in the attached image. Scrolling through pages of samples at DaFont, using the What the Font tool at MyFonts and the Matcherator at Font Squirrel aren't bringing up any useful results. I'm pretty sure the lettering is not custom drawn.
  12. sign and design software

    Adobe deserves as much credit for revolutionizing computer-based print graphics work as Apple, if not more so. Adobe invented Postscript. The page description technology as well as Postscript-based fonts were critical elements in the so-called desktop publishing revolution. Apple happened to...
  13. sign and design software

    Many colleges and career techs teach courses on Adobe apps like Illustrator, InDesign, etc because employers are wanting proficiency in those applications from would-be hires more often than other creative applications. Adobe doesn't have any kind of thing they hang over schools saying you have...
  14. illustrator business vs personal

    IMHO, it's safer editing files and archiving them on physical hard discs. I'm not against cloud-based storage, but I only use a Creative Cloud account folder or other cloud service like Dropbox to store commonly used items (that are also backed up on physical hard discs). If I'm working on a new...
  15. sign and design software

    I've been using both Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW since the early 1990's. Photoshop was the first Adobe application I wanted to get; I bought a retail box that had Photoshop 2.5 and Illustrator 4 bundled together. I used CorelDRAW a lot, but the app had no ability to move vector paths into...
  16. sign and design software

    An Illustrator file that has custom made art/pattern brushes applied live to objects will have those brushes present in the brushes panel in Adobe Illustrator. When people claim they don't need any Adobe applications and then are faced with having to import a client's Adobe-generated art files...
  17. sign and design software

    AutoCAD files are not friendly to sign production. Plus, a legit copy of AutoCAD is expensive. Apps like Flexi or its Vinyl Express LXi cousin are good for general vinyl design/cutting operation. For all the advantages they have with connecting to and controlling vinyl cutters they lack certain...
  18. Need Help looking for a font name, please

    The basic, not embellished fonts look like Alverata (TypeTogether) https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/alverata The "Jonesfilbrun" letters look custom drawn and then warped afterward. They're made to look related to Alverata (or whatever the base typeface may be). The tractor graphic in that logo...
  19. Font ID Request - Slab Serif style

    Thanks. I had to go to Gemini's web site and download a new copy of the font. The old version I had was equipped with only uppercase characters.
  20. Font ID Request - Slab Serif style

    The lettering in the attached image has me stumped. The style looks familiar, but I can't seem to find a match and the image I have to work with isn't suitable for various font ID filters online. Thanks in advance for help!
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